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Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle to Peter Millar Cunningham, 4 December 1843
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1318
Identifier: Coll-1740
Content Description
Ms letter from Thomas Carlyle, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, to Peter Millar Cunningham, Surgeon Royal Navy, 4 December 1843.The letter reads:
I have received your little Essay on Compass Variations, and read it over with great satisfaction. It is a most ingenious little speculation, or rather big speculation in little bulk; and had it even otherwise, it would have pleasantly brought you to our new embrace, and been very welcome in this hour.
You never come to us now; it is...
Dates:
4 December 1843
Ms notes from a Logic class given by James Frederick Ferrier at Edinburgh University, 1844-1845, and taken down by a person unknown
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1738
Content Description
Collection of 'written out notes on Lectures in Logic class session 1844-45', apparently taken during the classes given by J. F. Ferrier during his only year as philosophy lecturer at Edinburgh University. The notebook is divided into 14 lectures on e.g. consciousness, knowledge, and feeling. There are frequent references to the work of Reid and Hamilton, and less common references to Brown, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Plato and Stewart. It is not known who wrote down the notes.8vo,...
Dates:
1844-1845
MS precept of seisin signed by George Durie commendator of Dunfermline Abbey 1544
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1595
Scope and Contents
This Latin manuscript in ink - a 'precept of seisin' - on a single sheet of vellum is signed by George Durie and twenty-one monks, being: John Baxter, James Murcheston, Thomas Burne, James Re[?], William Burne, James Thomson, Alexander Hunman, John Spendluff, James Crethorne, John Boswell, Patrick Masoun, James Dundass, Thomas Jamesson, John Tresam, David Dundas, John Murray, Robert Hogh, Andrew Brown, Alexander Mow, Alexander Alkyn, and Thomas Lytilione There is an early...
Dates:
1544
Ms tale of an elopement from Keswick to Gretna Green 1835
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1560
Scope and Contents
Manuscript, octo, 13pp, at approximately 3300 words, and written neatly.
The account of the story of hardship was written in the form of an interview by someone called 'Banns' or 'Barns' with Sally responding in Cumbrian dialect, and at Keswick, 25 February 1835.
Dates:
1798
Ms thesis Ecological Notes on Machair-land, K. J. F. Park
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1602
Scope and Contents
The work Ecological notes on Machair-land, circa 1952, may have been the basis Kenneth J. F. Park's intended Ph.D. It comprises c. 200 pages of manuscript text, including numerous figures, graphs, illustrations, and maps. There are 9 large sepia photographs (laid on card). The text discusses climatic factors, geological and edaphic factors (influenced by soil), agriculture, distribution of Machair-land, the South Harris and Ensay Machairs, Manish Machair...
Dates:
1952
Ms volume of genealogies of Scottish families, drawn up by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh
Fonds — Box: CLX-A-1568, Volume: Coll-1802 / SC-Acc-2017-0034
Identifier: Coll-1802
Content Description
This genealogical manuscript volume relating to Scottish families, by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, bears the bookplate of Robert Graham, a literary patron of Robert Burns.
The title-page is noted as...: "A collection of the most remarkable accounts that relate to the families of Scotland, drawn from their own charters [...] By Sir George Mackenzie".
264 manuscript leaves, contemporary quarter calf over boards.
Dates:
c 1636-1691
Ms volume of poems, songs and epigrams, Helen Duncan, c. 1815-1820
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1685
Scope and Contents
Work in the ms volume includes an untitled piece, 'On Belinda', 'Epigram', 'The roof of straw', 'Verses by a young lady', and inserted loosley 'The little men'.
The volume is signed and dated 'Helen Duncan, October 12th 1818' on the front end paper.
Dates:
1815-1820
Mss and other papers relating to John Middleton Murry and Community Farm
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1584
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of material emanating from the collections built by Victor Skipp, being:
1 x original ms of 'Community Farm', with Contents, Introduction, Chapters I-XVI, and Postscript, with annotations, and revised Chapters, but no Chapter V, VI or X
1 x original ms of part of 'Community Farm', being Chapters V and New Chapter, both with penicl annotation speaking of Chapter...
Dates:
1942-1987
Munition Work Record of the Falkirk Iron Coy, Ltd.
Item
Identifier: Coll-2118
Scope and Contents
This is a photograph album recording the First World War work of the Falkirk Iron Company, a cast iron goods manufacturer that switched to the production of munitions in 1915. The photographer is not named. As a "Government Controlled Establishment", the Falkirk Iron Company produced 10,000 tons of munitions, many of these delivered by women, who feature prominently in the photographs. A printed note to the front paste down of the album gives a detailed breakdown of the munitions produced,...
Dates:
1915-1918
Music Book of Mostly Scottish Airs
Fonds — Volume: Dk.5.13
Identifier: Coll-2193
Scope and Contents
Music book of Colin McRae, either first owner or the author, containing mostly of Scottish airs. 1830-1835. P.96 dated 18 April 1835.
Dates:
1830-1835